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Mk2 Mondeo 2.0 Head Gasket Replacment Pic Heavy

LilLew
LilLew
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Here is my current Problem

I had my car using 3.5 litres of oil in 1 week and only using a small amount of coolant

so i ripped the head off and i found with ther are lots of pictures

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Head pics

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Valve

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BIG PROBLEMS HERE 4 out of 16 valve guides are like this or just cracked

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So i am going to replace all of the exhaust side of the guides the inlet side are fine

Next it is a case of dropping the head off at the local engine machining shops

8x valve guide + Fitting

Head Skim

and acid clean

£100 all in

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    sounds like a good price mate at least you no the top end will be all good after are you doing a new cam belt kit to

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